#Sun Belt

Following Thursday night’s 62-48 win over West Virginia in the team’s Big XII opener, the Horned Frogs’ record pushed to 11-1 making it their best-ever start. The team’s current eight-game win streak is currently the second-longest.

After two decades of missing March Madness, TCU broke through to reach the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team. The Horned Frogs were one-and-done, losing in the first round to Syracuse. The school has made back-to-back NCAAs just once in school history and that is in the early 1950s.

Texas State may not have the senior core it had a year ago, but it certainly has talent. Whether that talent can manifest itself into another run at the championship is the big question. Having the Sun Belt’s best shooter returning for her senior season helps.

Texas State has grown accustomed to cycling in new talent each year without much drop-off during Kaspar’s tenure with transfers and graduation. Seven of the Bobcats’ 10 players who received ample playing time last year return.

After posting their second straight winning season UTA Lady Mavs head coach Krista Gerlich replaced a strong senior class that had graduated with the top incoming signing class in the Sun Belt Conference.

It’s a new era in Arlington as former Texas Tech assistant Chris Ogden takes the reins of the UT-Arlington program with hopes of taking the Mavericks to even bigger heights after winning 20 games for three straight seasons.